By Simon Levine
Published: Friday 22 February 2008
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Anonymous
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Why should an ISP have to pay a fortune to monitor every user - and the cost of that will be passed to the end-users. This will greatly increase the cost of broadband, making a digital future less likely.
Plus why is the government looking at legislation to protect an out-of-date business model? Using this logic, anyone who builds a wall can sue the manufacturer of a car that happened to hit it and knock it down, because the car maker failed to put safeguards in place to monitor what drivers were doing and prevent it from happening.
Ludicrous idea.
BT has never faced prosecution for fraudulent acti...
Craig Reilly
Why should an ISP have to pay a fortune to monitor...
Anonymous
Let it happen - and see what the backlash is when ...
Simon
Why is the government - or rather a very small num...
Anonymous
Simon - "Let it happen - and see what the backlash...
Karen Challinor
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